hyperbolic
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
hyperbolic
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- This hyperbolical epitaph. — Fuller.
- French: hyperbolique
- German: hyperbolisch, übertrieben
- Italian: iperbolico
- Portuguese: hiperbólico
- Russian: гиперболи́ческий
- Spanish: hiperbólico
hyperbolic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- 1988, R. F. Leftwich, "Wide-Band Radiation Thermometers", chapter 7 of, David P. DeWitt and Gene D. Nutter, editors, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry, ISBN 0471610186, page 512 :
- In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fs2) but off-axis performance suffers.
- 1988, R. F. Leftwich, "Wide-Band Radiation Thermometers", chapter 7 of, David P. DeWitt and Gene D. Nutter, editors, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry, ISBN 0471610186, page 512 :
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
- (mathematics, of a, metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- 1998, Katsuhiko Matsuzaki and Masahiko Taniguchi, Hyperbolic Manifolds and Kleinian Groups, 2002 reprint, Oxford, ISBN 0198500629, page 8, proposition 0.10 :
- There is a universal constant m_0>0 such that every hyperbolic surface R has an embedded hyperbolic disk with radius greater than m_0.
- 1998, Katsuhiko Matsuzaki and Masahiko Taniguchi, Hyperbolic Manifolds and Kleinian Groups, 2002 reprint, Oxford, ISBN 0198500629, page 8, proposition 0.10 :
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- 2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa
and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on Riemann Surfaces and Fuchsian Groups, Cambridge, ISBN 0521003504, page 6 : - A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on \partial\mathcal H.
- 2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa
- (topology) Of, pertaining to
or in a hyperbolic space a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature. - 2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa
and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on Riemann Surfaces and Fuchsian Groups, Cambridge, ISBN 0521003504, page 6 : - Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis A_f of f.
- 2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa
- French: hyperbolique
- German: hyperbolisch
- Portuguese: hiperbólico
- Russian: гиперболический
- Spanish: hiperbólico
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